Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Ms. Treurnicht and Mr. Sabia, thank you for joining us, but thank you especially for spending the time to prepare, research and produce this second report. Congratulations.
My first question deals with the chapter you have called: “Tapping Economic Potential through Broader Workforce Participation”, and particularly with the ideas you have proposed to help women with young children become more active in the workforce.
In your recommendation in that part of the report, you are quite direct. You propose the creation of a national subsidized childcare program, using Quebec's as an example. I am already convinced that allowing women and men with young children to participate more actively in the workforce would have a beneficial effect on our economy.
To help us in our work, could you share with us the research and the data you used to come to that conclusion. I imagine you based yourselves on facts before you made that proposal to the Department of Finance.